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Written by: David Mikkelson
June 11, 2018
Neither Pizzagate nor a "child trafficking bunker" in Tucson is real or connected to illegal act ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
June 11, 2018
Disreputable web sites conflated a homeless camp in Arizona with a carefully orchestrated multi- ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 11, 2018
A Facebook page posing as the actor posted a hoax message about a new movie in the popular time- ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 11, 2018
A viral Facebook post falsely implied a photograph of youngsters in orange jumpsuits shows detai ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 11, 2018
A digitally manipulated video showing a group of penguins living on a plastic island was created ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 9, 2018
Some fake news sites just can't get over their obsessions with pederasty, likely because it make ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 8, 2018
Authorities have determined a skull found roughly 20 miles from an abandoned homeless camp belon ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 8, 2018
A blog devoted to the roundly-debunked "Pizzagate" story reprinted an equally false post from 20 ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 7, 2018
Yet another spurious rumor about an old show returning to the small screen appeared on Facebook ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 7, 2018
A fake news site capitalized on controversy involving the comedian, claiming she adopted a black ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 6, 2018
A viral Facebook post falsely claimed that the New Hampshire amusement park Story Land was perma ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 5, 2018
Police investigated and concluded the site is actually an abandoned homeless camp.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 5, 2018
A photograph shared widely online made it look as if the prices for gasoline in Los Angeles had ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
June 5, 2018
Statements from the pontiff about European assimilation of migrants were absurdly characterized ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 4, 2018
Viral stories falsely suggest that a NIH fact sheet was “quietly” amended to state that cannabis ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 4, 2018
A startling quote from the football player actually originated on a sports satire page.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 3, 2018
A spoof of the Starbucks race controversy and anti-bias training featured an apocryphal quote fr ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 2, 2018
A satirical Twitter account added its own "update" to a report saying that President Trump was c ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 1, 2018
An artist's satirical post about the First Lady circulated online, eventually spreading without ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 1, 2018
A sign informing Starbucks customers that stores would be closed in order to "educate white peop ...
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